Fifty-two years after the body of 17-year-old Melissa Ann Smith was discovered by hunters in Utah, DNA evidence has now confirmed she was a victim of prolific serial killer Ted Bundy.
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The DOJ funding will support the MUFSC’s capacity to generate SNP DNA profiles to support forensic investigative genetic genealogy (FIGG) testing in West Virginia.
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The Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency (PCCD) is working with 12 hospitals, 64 police departments, forensic nurses, and labs in Erie, Lancaster, and York Counties to pilot the tracking system ahead of statewide launch in December.
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Ancient DNA reveals that plague repeatedly returned to Europe for more than 400 years after the Black Death, evolving into new lineages and spreading through trade, migration, and war.
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The Arkansas State Crime Laboratory (ASCL) has officially launched Rapid DNA technology at participating booking stations, making Arkansas the third state in the nation to deploy this capability.
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Promega Corporation has launched Paradyme 27GY STR System, the first commercially available short tandem repeat (STR) analysis kit to include the company’s Reduced-Stutter Polymerase (RSP).
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The Ada County Sheriff’s Office announced the identity of the man who died inside a Boise Catholic church in December 1982—and revealed a possible connection to the Tylenol poisonings.
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The database has mapped out DNA from labradors, dachshunds, cocker spaniels, pugs and many more. Dogs may be directly involved in a crime, but are also frequently bystanders to illegality and can lead police to a human suspect.
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Investigators in Montana, working with forensic experts, have solved the 1978 homicide of 16-year-old Corina Contreraz by analyzing DNA from an unlikely source: a fingerprint card collected in 1982 upon the suspect’s arrest on unrelated charges.
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Advances in familial DNA technology that were utilized to reevaluate old profiles yielded a person of interest this summer. An abandonment sample taken from the defendant confirmed that his DNA matched the DNA from the 1995 rape kit.
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